Bunch of Fives Series Possum's Rest Can humans and wildlife co-exist in the suburbs?
5 minutes
Directed by Nick Hilligoss
Produced by the Natural History Unit, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Executive Producer, Dione Gilmour
It was a quiet, leafy neighborhood until the humans moved in. Motors, loud music and barbecue smoke disrupt possum sleeping hours, and then the humans have the nerve to get upset with a little moonlight song and 3 a.m. clogging on a tin roof. Can humans and wildlife co-exist in the suburbs?
Other titles in the series are:
Turtle World - A powerful allegory about the survivability of Homo sapiens.
Lower Orders - A new and funny look at the food chain!
Banjo Frogs - An adolescent frog learns to fit in with new neighbors.
Grade Level: 3-12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 1998
Copyright Date: 1998
DVD ISBN: 1-59458-687-X
VHS ISBN: 1-56029-771-9
Reviews "These award-winning programs are open to myriad interpretations and analyses, which is a feature that makes them marvelously adaptable to a widely diverse range of age levels and curricular areas. All are delightful, full of playful humor and clever drollery...an excellent series for any school or public library collection."
"Delightful, full of playful humor and clever drollery."
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Awards and Festivals Children's Award, Wildscreen 2000 Panda Awards
Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
Best Children's Program, International Wildlife Film Festival
Best Environmental Film, Vermont International Film Festival
Best Children's/Educational, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
Best Short Animation, Youth Jury, Freeze Frame International Children's Film Festival
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
Flicks, Sastatchewan International Children's Film Festival
East Lansing Children's Film Festival
Cornell Environmental Film Festival
Artivist Film Festival
Seattle Environmental Film Festival
American Conservation Film Festival
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